Attenuation Essays

  • Optical Fiber Sensors

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  • Attenuation Essay

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    Attenuation is the reduction in the total number of photons remaining in the beam after passing the thickness of the object. This is results of interaction of photons with the object and being absorbed or scattered. As the x-ray beam pass through the patient , the beam will attenuated , and also it depend on part thickness , If the thickness is increased the density of the image will reduced ( ↑ thickness ↑ attenuation ↓ density ). The attenuation is affected by the type of absorber which

  • The Ashley Treatment Description

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    the discomfort of fully formed breast later in life. Also, because of the treatment, she need to received estrogen hormonal therapy. According to Robert W. Newsom, 2009, over the period of 3 years, Ashley received high dose of estrogen, a growth attenuation treatment that will result in her remaining relatively small stature, perhaps 4 feet 6 inches tall and weighing about 65 or 70 pounds.” The combination of multiple surgeries and estrogen hormonal treatment attracted public opinion and ethical analysis

  • Dr. Simmons Case Summary

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    The best decision that Dr. Simmons can make from this point forward includes the discontinuation of prescribing the sleeping medication, Seconal®, to Mrs. Abbot as well as explaining the placebo effect she has been experiencing while taking the lactose pills instead of the active medication. I believe this to be the best possible decision for Dr. Simmons because it focuses to both end Mrs. Abbot’s addiction to the sleeping pills as well as demonstrate that Mrs. Abbot can in fact sleep without the

  • The Ashley Treatment: Practical, but Ethical?

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    The Ashley Treatment: Practical, But Ethical? - Hitler times – medical experiments - Kennedy sister – lobotomy - Potential grave consequences that can result from irresponsible, or criminal, medical experiments. While we must be vigilant to protect innocent victims from such experimentation we cannot let that stifle our duty to continue making advances in healthcare and improving the lives of patients. - Moral obligations should typically not be so demanding that enormous sacrificies must be

  • Attenuation Effects on Data Transmitted through Cable

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    Attenuation Effects on Data Transmitted through Cable Abstract Attenuation refers to any reduction in the strength of a signal. Attenuation occurs with digital or analog signals. Attenuation is the end result of signals being transmitted extended distances. Attenuation is usually expressed in units called decibels (dBs). The cable type will determine at what point along the length of the cable signal degradation occurs. Repeaters can be inserted along the length of the cable to boost the

  • Ultrasound Waves

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    waves and apply them to your patient’s skin, the sound waves that are transmitted from your transducer and into your patient’s tissue go through a series of changes. The sound waves can be reflected, refracted, scattered about and also attenuated. Attenuation is defined as the decrease in wave amplitude (or intensity) due to the mechanical wave interaction with the medium, meaning that it is a measure of how the wave is affected by the medium. (Miele, 43). When looking at ultrasound images there are

  • The Development of Maraging Steels

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    different compositions have been prepared by means of induction furnace electro slag remelting technique using titanium and chromium instead of cobalt which is a high expensive strategic element, also nickel content was reduced to 10-13%. Mass attenuation coefficients, half value layers and effective atomic numbers have been determined for the prepared samples at photon energies 238, 583, 661, 911, 1173, 1332 and 2614keV. The results are compared with the corresponding theoretical calculations. In

  • Operon Essay

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    naturally active and must have a repressible structure to bind and inhibit activity and production. This operon is both activated and repressed based on the levels of effector molecules – tryptophan – in the environment by means of regulation and attenuation. Brief Evolutionary Descent The tryptophan (trp) operon is considered an ancient innovation for it was present in bacterial and archaeal ancestors prior to their branching. The first evolutionary steps were gathering and organizing structural genes

  • Theories of Visual and Auditory Attention

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    compare and contrast theories of visual and auditory attention as well as discussing how well these theories explain how we attend to objects. The essay will consist of three auditory attention theories of Broadbent’s filter theory, Treisman’s (1964) attenuation theory, and Deutsch and Deutsch’s (1963) late selection model of attention; and two models of visual attention known as the spotlight model, such as Treisman and Gelade’s (1980) feature integration model, and the zoom-lens model of visual attention

  • Perovskite Essay

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    The perovskite materials are of considerable technological importance, particularly with regard to physical properties such as pyro and piezoelectricity , dielectric susceptibility, linear and nonlinear optic effects. Many of these properties are gross effects, varying enormously from one perovskite to another and differences in crystal structures are hardly apparent . Effects of the impending transition are evident in some of the crystal properties at temperatures at least a few degrees away from

  • Hyperbole: A Rhetoric Study

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    According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the word hyperbole comes from the Greek huperbolē (sometimes transliterated as hyperbolē), or ‘excess’ (from huper / hyper ‘above’ + ballein ‘to throw’). In Roman texts, the word could appear in its Greek transliterated form or in its Latin form, superlatio (PORTER, 2001), which means “exaggeration” and therefore, in rhetoric studies, ‘hyperbole’ (FARIA, 1962). It can also be expressed in English by the words ‘overstatement’ and ‘exaggeration’, which

  • What is TEMPEST?

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    According to Whitman and Mattord, TEMPEST is a program developed by the US government to reduce the risk of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) monitoring. (Whitman & Mattord, 2009) Some believe that TEMPEST was actually a code word created by the US government in the 1960’s but was later defined as Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanation Surveillance Technology or Telecommunications Electronic Material Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions. (Whitman & Mattord, 2009) In general, TEMPEST

  • Mechanical Waves Essay

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    v= 1λ/T or v= λf When two waves intersect, the process of interference occurs; with cons... ... middle of paper ... ...optimal levels of wave attenuation - through means of refraction and energy absorption; in regards to the formation of safe harbours and beaches. Hypothesis That, floating breakwaters will produce optimal levels of wave attenuation as a pose to submerged breakwaters. This is due to the floating pontoon physically coming into contact with the waves and absorbing the wave energy

  • Benefits Of Dietary Fibre

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    Authority Influence of immune function, fermentability and production of SCFAS (short chain fatty acids), attenuation of post prandial blood glucose, improved laxation, attenuation of blood cholesterol IOM (2001)* Improved laxation, attenuation of blood cholesterol and attenuation of blood glucose AACC (2007)* fermentability by colonic microflora, attenuation of post prandial blood glucose, Attenuation of blood cholesterol, increasing of stool bulk, decreasing of intestinal transist time, EU

  • Attention Theories

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    and irrelevant information (in Eysenck & Keane, 2005). Such theories of early selection will be discussed; Broadbent’s (1958 in Lachman & Buttersfield, 1979) filter model which has been of particular importance to psychologists and Triesman’s attenuation model which has also been widely recognised (in Smith & Kossyln, 2007). However, before we look in to this it is important that we identify with one of the famous pioneers in focused auditory attention whose work has received immense popularity

  • Light Scattering Essay

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    SCATTERING Scattering takes place when obstacle dimension is smaller than wavelength of signal.Light scattering is a form of scattering in which light is the form of propagating energy which is scattered. Light scattering is deflection of a ray from a straight path i.e. Irregularities in the propagation medium, particles, or in the interface between two media. Deviations from the law of reflection due to irregularities on a surface are also usually considered to be a form of scattering. Scattering

  • Superfund Site Essay

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    Superfund sites are abandoned hazardous waste areas, designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as posing a high risk to human and ecological health. The Portland Harbor Superfund site is a group of 60 former industrial sites located along the lower Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. In the early 1900s, before environmental health was a public concern, sewage and industrial waste were dumped directly into the Willamette River. By the time waste control systems were introduced

  • Inducible Operon vs Repressible Operon

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    Inducible Operon vs Repressible Operon Genetic regulation is a process where certain proteins and other kinds of stimuli tend to cause a cell to express genes or not express them. The bacteria cell system is small system, but it carries out a lot of activities and must do so economically and efficiently, therefore actions of these genes must be regulated. There are two types of regulatory systems: inducible and repressible An operon is a cluster of genes that work together to form a polycistronic

  • Ultrasound Transducers

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    Describe the design on the machine and how their component parts work to produce an image. First used in medicine in the 1950s, Ultrasound is today used across a variety of fields. Using high frequency sound pulse with no radiation risk, Ultrasound is considered a safer application of imaging. Modern ultrasound equipment is based on some of the same principles used in first devices.(Chan, and Perlas, 2011) Based on the pulse-echo principle, ultrasound pulses are created by transducers, directed